F
ermented Plant Juice or FPJ
is made from axillary buds and
young fruits, fast growing plants,
young leaves of plants and grasses.
Mixed with crude sugar or molasses,
the juice is extracted and fermented
after storing for a period of time. The
liquid is applied to plant’s leaves and
growing points, soil around the plant,
compost heap and animal beddings to
fortify microbial activities.
Choosing the raw materials for FPJ
You choose materials that are:
►► Young and fresh
►► Free from insect pests and diseases
►► Abundant in the production area
►► Free from chemical containments
Materials needed in making FPJ
■■ Local plants that are fast growing like kangkong, legumes
and grasses.
■■ You can also use bamboo shoots, asparagus shoots,
actively growing plant parts and young fruits of cucumber,
squash, melon, watermelon, ampalaya and other
cucurbits.
■■ Weed species that are found growing in the production
area, young leaves of trees, banana trunks, young leaves
and fruits of stress tolerant crops are also good materials
for FPJ.
■■ You can use either crude sugar or molasses or whichever
is available and can be bought at a lower price.
■■ You will need basin, ceramic pot or plastic pail, net bag or
cloth bag, paper or cloth for cover, string, stone as weight,
bolo, chopping board, marking pen and glass jars.
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Agricultural Training Institute
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Content taken from the online course on Organic Fertilizer
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Collect the plant Cover the pot or pail with ■■ As seed treatment before sowing – soak the seeds in 0.2
materials early in the paper or cloth, and secure % solution for 4 to 5 hours to facilitate germination and
morning while they with a string or rubber band. as a start-up solution to germinating seeds.
are fresh and the Paper or cloth is used as
microorganisms are still cover to allow some air to get ■■ As a natural growth
present. Do not wash inside the pot and for the gas enhancer – FPJ
the plant materials. that is being produced during made from actively
the fermentation process to growing plant parts
escape. On the cover, write and fast growing plants
the date of processing and the expected date of harvest may contain natural
Cut the plant materials into small pieces so that the growth hormones and
juice can be easily extracted. mineralized nitrogen
Store the container with the bagged mixture in a cool
that promotes plant
dry shady place. Make sure that the storage area is not
growth. Mix 1 teaspoon
infested with cockroaches or mice, because they might
Put 3 kg chopped plant of FPJ per liter of
feed on the mixture and contaminate the extract. In 7
materials in a basin, water and spray on the
days, plant juice is extracted and fermented. The plant
add 1 kg crude sugar leaves or apply directly
extract will change its color from green to yellow, then to
or molasses, then mix to the soil around the
brown and will smell sweet and alcoholic.
thoroughly with your plants from seedling
hands. Make sure that stage up to pre-flowering stage. You can apply weekly or
all plant materials are depending on plant vigor. Please note that with the use
mixed with sugar so After 7 days, lift the bagged of FPJ, there is no overdose; you may use it liberally.
that the juice can be mixture and squeeze hard to However, the soil must be watered first before applying
extracted easily. get the remaining extracts. FPJ to avoid scorching of the roots.

■■ Apply FPJ to the soil to serve as source of energy to

Put the mixture in a net bag or cloth bag. This is accelerate activities of soil microorganism. This activity
done so that the extracted juice will ooze from all Collect the fermented extracts will make the nutrients available to the plants.
sides of the bag. and preserve in dark colored
glass jar. To cover the jar, use ■■ Give FPJ, as drink, to livestock at 1 tbsp/liter to increase
paper or cloth to allow the microbial activities in gastro-intestinal tracts. This would
gas to escape during further result to better absorption of nutrients.
Put the bagged mixture
in a ceramic pot or fermentation, then, store in a cool, shady place. ■■ Spray to animal beddings to hasten manure
plastic pail, and put You may add the plant residue to the compost pile decomposition.
weight to compress to hasten decomposition or you can apply it to the
the mixture. Stone is garden plots as source of organic matter. Use your
a good material used FPJ more effectively if it is stored for another one
to weigh down the week after completion.
mixture.